A Highly Unusual Thioester Bond in a Pilus Adhesin Is Required for Efficient Host Cell Interaction

Roles of Minor Pilin Subunits Spy0125 and Spy0130 in the Serotype M1 Streptococcus pyogenes Strain SF370

(2010) W. D. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Isopeptide Bonds Block the Mechanical Extension of Pili in PathogenicStreptococcus pyogenes

(2010) Jorge Alegre-Cebollada et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Crystal Structure of the Minor Pilin FctB Reveals Determinants of Group A Streptococcal Pilus Anchoring

(2010) Christian Linke et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The internal thioester and the covalent binding properties of the complement proteins C3 and C4

(2010) S. K. Alex Law et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

Structural Basis of Host Cell Recognition by the Pilus Adhesin from Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2010) Thierry Izoré et al.   STRUCTURE

Molecular architecture of Streptococcus pneumoniae TIGR4 pili

(2009) Markus Hilleringmann et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Crystal Structure ofStreptococcus pyogenesSortase A

(2009) Paul R. Race et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Intramolecular Isopeptide Bonds Give Thermodynamic and Proteolytic Stability to the Major Pilin Protein ofStreptococcus pyogenes

(2009) Hae Joo Kang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Sortase D Forms the Covalent Bond That Links BcpB to the Tip ofBacillus cereusPili

(2009) Jonathan M. Budzik et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Linkage of T3 and Cpa pilins in theStreptococcus pyogenesM3 pilus

(2009) Bernard R. Quigley et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Structural biology of the chaperone–usher pathway of pilus biogenesis

(2009) Gabriel Waksman et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The Corynebacterium diphtheriae shaft pilin SpaA is built of tandem Ig-like modules with stabilizing isopeptide and disulfide bonds

(2009) H. J. Kang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intramolecular amide bonds stabilize pili on the surface of bacilli

(2009) J. M. Budzik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Searching protein structure databases with DaliLite v.3

(2008) L. Holm et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Pili in Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria — structure, assembly and their role in disease

(2008) T. Proft et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

MaxQuant enables high peptide identification rates, individualized p.p.b.-range mass accuracies and proteome-wide protein quantification

(2008) Jürgen Cox et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Amide bonds assemble pili on the surface of bacilli

(2008) J. M. Budzik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The molecular switch that activates the cell wall anchoring step of pilus assembly in gram-positive bacteria

(2008) A. Mandlik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pili in Gram-positive bacteria: assembly, involvement in colonization and biofilm development

(2008) Anjali Mandlik et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY